80s & 90s Nostalgia Escape Room Backstory & Hints
Housekeeping
If you've done a bunch of escape rooms, you know the drill.
Basically don't break stuff. Here's the rules:
Enough about the rules, have fun!
Basically don't break stuff. Here's the rules:
- No pictures need to be removed from the walls.
- Nothing needs to be torn apart or requires more than one-finger force.
- Please be careful and don't hurt yourself!
- Please leave the escape room pieces where you found them so we don't lose anything.
Enough about the rules, have fun!
Backstory
If for some reason the VHS tape didn't work for you, here is the intro video:
HINTS
1- Blackboard
You can play the VHS tape to get started or watch the video above. The first clue is at the end of the video.
Small hint
"Today's lesson has been cancelled. Prepare the board for tomorrow's lesson."
BIG hint
The blackboard is in the school room. Try clearing the board. A wet wipe below the school desk may help.
ANSWER
Answer is 5031.
2 - cheese sticks for breakfast
SMALL HINT
Code opens dresser drawer in the kids' room. Where might you find the meal schedule?
BIG HINT
Find the calendar on the cork board in the school room. Check the date. You should get a 6-digit code which will go in the hall door. Day - Month - Last 2 of Year
ANSWER
Answer is 112392.
3 - highlighted grid
SMALL HINT
Code opens the hall closet. What does this layout remind you of in the house?
BIG HINT
Match the highlighted rectangles with the tapes in the VHS tape store. The letters create a word left to right.
Answer
Answer is DANCE.
4 - Flip your perspective
SMALL HINT
Code opens the wolf box. What things could you look beneath?
BIG HINT
Check under the table in Pizza Hut.
ANSWER
Answer is DUDE.
5 - Mystery Pic
SMALL HINT
Code opens the vent in the living room. What does the image under the vent remind you of?
BIG HINT
Open the pillow on the couch that matches the picture.
ANSWER
6 - Candy
SMALL HINT
Look for hidden important letters on the candy boxes.
BIG HINT
Circled letters on the candy boxes on their own spell a word but then you need to change a couple letters..
ANSWER
Letters first spell BOGUS, then change G to N and U to E.
And you get BONES.
And you get BONES.
7 - cassette
SMALL HINT
Code opens the jewelry box that should be on the shelf in the Pizza Hut room.
Now find a tape player that works! (And please don't record over the tape!)
Hit # after the code when you figure it out!
*Fun Fact: we purchased 4 cassette tape players and none of them worked. The Walkman, which still works, was your host's when she was a kid. And the other one we purchased *new* in order to play a cassette tape out loud!
Now find a tape player that works! (And please don't record over the tape!)
Hit # after the code when you figure it out!
*Fun Fact: we purchased 4 cassette tape players and none of them worked. The Walkman, which still works, was your host's when she was a kid. And the other one we purchased *new* in order to play a cassette tape out loud!
BIG HINT
Code goes in the door lock in the video store
ANSWER
Answer is 8675309.
When opening the closet door in the VHS tape store, push the lock/# button after entering the code.
When opening the closet door in the VHS tape store, push the lock/# button after entering the code.
8 - adult closet
SMALL HINT
Try smelling the items hidden in the black box and matching to dog-eared pages in the Sears catalog. Then do the math on the top of the box with those numbers. Use the Magnadoodle or your phone for the math. =)
BIG HINT
Soap is 5.95, Lip Gloss is 1.99, Play Dough is 6.99, Bubble Gum 3.50, Cologne 5.99. Complete the math equation, ending with the equals sign. Ignore the decimal point.
Answer
Ignore the decimal point.
Answer is 1344. Opens box to the left of the games in Pizza Hut.
Answer is 1344. Opens box to the left of the games in Pizza Hut.
9 - maze
SMALL HINT
Complete the maze.
ANSWER
Key opens the lock box in Pizza Hut. If something isn't working right, a picture of the next hint is below.
10 - lock box polaroid
SMALL HINT
Look for the differences in the photo of the walls - not including the bedding.
big hint
What do the first letters of the missing items spell?
Answer
First letters of the missing posters spell out BAND.
11 - Rubik's cubes
SMALL HINT
Code opens the metal box.
Rubik's cubes need to go into a black box from the kids' room for the next step. Match the white squares. Add colors up. Where do you see those colors in that order?
Rubik's cubes need to go into a black box from the kids' room for the next step. Match the white squares. Add colors up. Where do you see those colors in that order?
BIG HINT
First match the white squares on the Rubik's cubes to the white squares in the boxes. Then add up the color squares for each section that has the same color dot. So if there are two red dots on one and one on another, that's 2+1=3, which is your red number. Do that for all 4 colors. These go into the lock with 4-color numbers.
ANSWER
Answer is 6(red) 5(green) 1(yellow) 3(blue). Open the medicine cabinet in the bathrom.
12 - medicine cabinet
SMALL HINT
Find the band-aid box in the cabinet, then find the band-aid elsewhere in the house and place them together.
BIG HINT
Band-aid is in the kitchen.
Answer
13 - cereal puzzle
SMALL HINT
Find the veggie can that is lighter than the others. Note the protein is with milk, and not the bottom number which is recommended levels.
BIG HINT
Through a process of elimination, figure out the code. Look at the actual grams of protein, not the recommended amount that is right below.
ANSWER
Answer is 6757.
14 - safe
SMALL HINT
This code unlocks the flap on the left side of the side table in the living room.
BIG HINT
Follow the instructions to open the safe in the hall closet.
ANSWER
15 - Egg pantyhose
SMALL HINT
Was there a question mark somewhere? That something you found might match the shape of?
BIG HINT
Look on an upper shelf on the bookshelf in the kids room...
ANSWER
Touch the bottom of the pantyhose container to the circle on the top left of the shelf second from the top in the kids' room bookshelf. It will unlock the secret room. You made it!
